Although it appears it was the New Hampshire State Republican Party that blocked Paul, we should remember that Fox News doesn't have a kind track record with Ron Paul.
What is interesting is when you consider what brought them to the decision to block Paul. The only reports that I have seen is that Fox News is "scared." But I would like to find a better explanation, USA is the beacon for Democracy in the world, right?
NH Fox News Debate Lineup (According to the AP - 6th story down)
Candidate - NH Polling Percentage (1/2) - Invited or Not
Mitt Romney - 28%/31.4% - Invited!
John McCain - 25%/25.8% - Invited!
Rudy Giuliani - 14%/12.8% - Invited!
Mike Huckabee - 10%/10.6% - Invited!
Ron Paul - 8%/7% - Not Invited!
Fred Thompson - 3%/3.4% - Invited!
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 2)
1. It will be interesting to see if things will change if Paul places third in Iowa. A lot is riding on the caucuses for the Paul campaign. Hopefully the Paul supporters there realize it & turn out. A heavy snowfall would help things too.
Pat at 4:10PM on Dec 30th 2007
2. Please check, I think the Jan 6th debate on Fox was never really scheduled. I don't think it's happening. Fergus Cullen (NH GOP) tried, but couldn't get it together. Ron Paul was not excluded.
David Martin at 5:49PM on Dec 30th 2007
3. Let's get MSNBC to host a roundtable forum at the same time as Fox's Neo-Con debates.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/MSNBC_TO_HOST_ROUNDTABLE_w_PAUL_HUNTER
Tracker at 4:18PM on Dec 30th 2007
4. Marty Ryan is welcoming your comments about his decision not to let
Ron Paul participate in the upcoming debate on Fox News....
Marty Ryan -- Fox News Channel
Title: Executive Producer - Political Coverage
In charge of Fox Presidential Debate
E-mail: marty.ryan@foxnews.com
Phone: (202) 824-6403
Ready For A Change at 4:32PM on Dec 30th 2007
5. The Shift in Momentum IS FOR PRESIDENT HUCKABEE in 2008
Mike Huckabee is presidential material and is alone able to defeat Hillary & Obama. I am now convinced that those wealthier donors to Romney's, Giuliani’s, and Thompson's campaign have wasted their money and if they continue, are wasting their hard earned money on candidates who do not have voter appeal or substance. As a member of the younger generation, I will tell you point blank, Romney, Giuliani, and Thompson DO NOT connect with us.
Romney has run out of gas. He has been the worst investment money could buy. His persecution complex makes him so defensive, weepy and wimpy that he easily cracks under pressure. His fake, calculated tears make him look like a BIG WEENIE before now Czar Putin in mother Russia and the rest of the world. Romney's negative campaigning reveals his unprofessional, underhanded desperation that he'll do anything to get elected. Romney has shown the world that he is an unkind, angry old man. Romney's and Giuliani's flip flop past makes both of them a liability and not an asset for Republicans in 2008.
Every time Huckabee is heard his approval amongst Republicans increases even without the major financial support. Just imagine what would happen if he got the major financial support. He is the Republican's secret weapon in the 2008 election. Huckabee's proven leadership can help bring America together as a team.
Huckabee is the BEST candidate for the dangerous times that we live in. What also makes Mike Huckabee the most logical candidate is that he is not only attracts Republicans but also Democrats to his side without compromising his principles. Both side support is needed to win this election in 2008 and he has it.
Listed are just some of the reasons why I and most others switched our vote to Huckabee:
1. Huckabee can think fast on his feet.
2. He is personable and has a great sense of humor.
3. He is real and does NOT put up a front.
4. Huckabee considers the poor and less fortunate.
5. Huckabee is extremely knowledgeable about various issues and communicates with confidence.
6. He is Pro-life and Pro-family.
7. He is witty and competitive.
8. As governor, Huckabee is the longest proven executive leader among all the nominees.
9. He demonstrates wisdom, humility, and self-control.
10. Huckabee is completely understandable and communicates with great depth.
11. Huckabee has a consistent conservative track record.
12. He is noble, honest, compassionate, bold, also attentive to all the questions he was ever asked about WITHOUT being all over the board and WITHOUT sounding scattered.
13. Huckabee is clearly the toughest on border and national security.
14. Huckabee speaks without annoying hesitations and does not utilize vacuous speech.
15. He has earned the respect of Afro-Americans and Hispanics since he was THE ONLY top ranked one who valued and respected them by attending the latest ethnic sponsored republican forum.
16. He is direct and uncompromising about the FAIR TAX system.
17. Huckabee is very focused and he is all about accomplishing measurable goals.
18. Huckabee has the most practical experience, for over ten years, defeating the Clinton "socialist" political machine in Arkansas and alone has the know-how to defeat them nationally.
19. Huckabee, as governor of Arkansas, did more to practically help the people of New Oreans, LA after Katrina than the governor of Louisiana because Huckabee's state government was so organized
20. Mike Huckabee sticks to his principles without being pressured to change them at the whim of polls and media pundits. He also answers questions very candidly WITHOUT being nervous and WITHOUT dishonestly covering himself up before the public.
21. Huckabee is also NOT a part of the establishment in a period when there is an anti-establishment sentiment in America.
22. Mike Huckabee is the ONLY candidate who has a PRO-American trade Strategy that holds China accountable for their unethical trade and banking practices, as well as their human rights violations.
23. Mike Huckabee's foreign policy methods DO NOT exclude, alienate and take advantage of America's neighboring countries or potential allies. Such behavior has caused some nations to despise democracy and the values necessary to maintain it.
24. Huckabee believes that part of winning the war on terror is achieving energy independence.
25. Mike Huckabee is the ONLY candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton and Obama. The people who are passionate about Huckabee are NOT going to suddenly change their vote within the given time period of the primaries. The rest of the nominees command no such passion. Face it. It is all over.
And checkout this link called Hidden Agendas at this web site below.
Huckabee IS NOT A POLITICAL MASON and learn why that is good for America.
http://evolutionfacts.townhall.com
Reggie at 5:34PM on Dec 30th 2007
6. Reggie- You must be one of those paid Huckabee bloggers. Paulistas do it for free baby!! If you'd bothered to look at any of those polls, you'd have seen that most of those supporting Ron Paul are REALLY into supporting Ron Paul. We aren't gonna even think about those other candidates. Go spam elsewhere.
I support Ron Paul! Check out the latest on this issue at Nolanchart
http://www.nolanchart.com/article797.html
We may have to wait for tomorrow to get the news from the campaign and from FOX, but from Westmiller's research, it does seem that the Jan 6th round table does not exist...
Alison Murphy at 5:49PM on Dec 30th 2007
7. I'm not a Paulhead but I do want to see him included in all debates. His message regarding the outrages of current foreign and economic policy needs to be heard and acknowledged by the other candidates. But too, I think he's got some explaining to do as to reports that he does not believe in evolution! I could never ever vote for someone like that.
Rod at 6:46PM on Dec 30th 2007
8. Reggie, you forgot "dog lover". :)
Darryl Schmitz at 6:39PM on Dec 30th 2007
9. Ron Paul continues to lead the pack in everything but Media Coverage and telephone polls of 'Likely Republican Voters'- which is really " People who voted for Bush in the 2004 Primary"- you can look it up in the methodology disclosures of the polls themselves!
Campaign fundraising- Paul Leads... Individual donors- Paul leads... Grassroots organization and number of volunteers- Paul leads... Attendance at rallies and campaign appearances- Paul Leads... Number of Yard Signs- Paul leads... amount of support from INDIVIDUALS on Myspace, Facebook and other Social Networking sites- Paul Leads... Number of searches on GOOGLE for the last year, six months, month, week and day- Paul Leads... Number of website hits- Paul Leads... Number ov individuals with pro-candidate websites- Paul leads... Text message, On-line, any polls OTHER than Major Media Corporation PHONE polls- Paul leads...
If ANY of the other candidates had half of the support listed above, they would be hailed as the next coming of George Washington! But since Ron Paul opposes much of what the OWNERS of the mainstream media outlets MAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM, he is ignored, slandered and lied about. His real support is minimized and discounted, since publicizing it would show how much the American Public is dusillusioned and disgusted with 'business as usual' in Washington D.C.
A vote for ANYONE other than Ron paul is a wasted vote, as the rest of the field just stands for a continuation of the corruption, waste, greed and rape of the American Citizenry that has accelerated over the last seven years.
Don't Wast Your Vote- Make it count for something REAL! Vote for ROn Paul!
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xtrabiggg at 6:56PM on Dec 30th 2007
10. Murdoch's Fox is the new Soviet news channel.
Gino at 6:58PM on Dec 30th 2007
11. Click on this link to send a message to EVERYONE at FOX. It's all automatic.
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/18384#comment-154801
lnardozi at 8:54PM on Dec 30th 2007
12. http://www.dailypaul.com/node/18384#comment-154801
lnardozi at 8:55PM on Dec 30th 2007
13. Could republicans finally acknowledge
the corruption that is Faux Noyz?
BOB JOHNSON at 9:53PM on Dec 30th 2007
14. Ron Paul is a Republican of a different color. His policies run contrary to the status quo of the last century, placing more responsibility and power on the states and removing it from the federal government while persuing a more national and less international agenda. Which is why he appeals so much to many kinds of Republicans who are tired of the 'old boy' and 'choir boy' venue. By opting to go in a different direction he's saying things that these largely young candidates like. It's not the same old soundbytes when a republican says he supports legalized prostitution.
And all of this plays very poorly with Fox News. Paul is not a corporate puppet nor is he a neo-con. He's more in vien with Goldwater conservativism. Because of this, Fox News knows that if he's elected president then they will recieve far less permissiveness for favorable coverage than Bush and Cheney has enjoyed. So Fox News plays the tired game of inventing a narrative. Paul is a loser. He's a lose cannon. He's unpresidental. Don't support him. Support some one like Gulliani who's been courted by Fox since 2005.
The biggest risk that Ron Paul poses to the republicans is that he might be a spoiler. If he doesn't win their primary then he'll be in a position to run like Ross Perot did in 92' and split off a portion of voters who would otherwise have voted along party lines. I don't see that happening on the democrats side.
Somber at 2:24AM on Dec 31st 2007
15. This one is a no-brainer.
Of course FOX news does not want Ron Paul in the White House. Faux is built on controversy, no not controversy, more like bitter rivalry. Conservatives v. Liberals.
What would they do if things really started to work and if the people really took control of the country? They would be out of luck and soon out of work.
FOX is almost salivating getting ready for Rudy v. Hillary, then 4 years of whichever one (both would be equally horrible) being bashed and defended by their commentators.
Wake up America! I know Ron Paul is not perfect, but he is a billion times better than any of the others.
Darogr at 8:40AM on Dec 31st 2007